Information about Ivan Plusch

Ivan Plusch was born in 1981 in Leningrad. He graduated from the St. Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design, the Department of Monumental Painting, in 2009. He is one of the founders and leaders of the group “The Unconquered” (2007), has regularly participated in Biennales, took part in the Parallel Programme of “Manifesta 10” (St. Petersburg, 2014), and has been a participant and organiser of numerous contemporary art projects. In 2013 –  he was a laureate of the “Innovation Award”, NCCA, Moscow; and of the Kuryokhin Prize, St. Petersburg; in 2014 – he was a nominee for the Strabag Award, Vienna. The artist lives and works in Budapest.

Solo exhibitions

2023 – Strange Holiday. Haze gallery. Berlin . Germany 
2021 – The Ivan Plusch Theatre. MMOMA, Moscow
2021 – After Singularity. The pop/off/art Gallery, Moscow
2021 – After Everything / After Everyone. Part 1. After the Chair. Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Center, St. Petersburg
2019 – Between Dreams and Nightmares. Kiscelli Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2019 – Nine Circles of Life. Marino Marini Museum, Florence, Italy 
2019 – The Promise of Eternal Life. Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, USA
2018 – The Mechanism of Immortality. Centre for Contemporary Arts 2019  (NCCA) “Arsenal”, Nizhny Novgorod
2018 –  The Sticky Fingers’ Effect. The pop/off/art Gallery, Moscow 2017 The Ministry of Love. Galerie RX, Paris, France
2016 – The No-Character Play. Halcyon Gallery, London, UK
2016 – On the Verge. UVG Art Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2016 – Between. Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, USA
2015 – Have a Good Rest. Galerija Pizana, Podgorica, Montenegro 2015 Strange/Private. Iragui Gallery, Moscow
2014 – Figurative Breakdown. Galerie RX, Paris, France
2014 – Inside Rooms. Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg
2014 – Illusion is scarier than reality (with Irina Drozd). As part  of the Parallel Programme of the IV Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. “Art Center Gridchinhall”,  Moscow
2014 – The Process of Passing. Parallel Programme “Manifesta 10”. 
The First Cadet Corps, St. Petersburg
2013 – Relocation. Museum “Anikushin’s Workshop”, St. Petersburg 2012 The Process of Passing 3. Anna Nova Gallery,  St. Petersburg
2012 – The Process of Passing 1. The 2nd Ural Biennale of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg
2011 – Before the Rooster Crows. Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow 
2011 – Shibari Translation. Galerie Orel Art, Paris, France
2010 – Ideal Radiation. XL Gallery, Moscow
2010 – News. Galerie Orel Art, Paris, France
2009 – Tile. Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow
2009 – Sculptures. The pop/off/art Gallery, Moscow
2009 – Forward into the Past. Gallery “Luda”, St. Petersburg
2008 – Oh Sport, You Are Peace! AL Gallery, St. Petersburg
2008 – Trophies of the City. Gallery “Atelier No.2”, Moscow
2008 – In Memory of a Heroic Life. Gallery “ARTstrelka-projects”,  Moscow
2007 – Museum Brands. “S-Art” Gallery, Moscow
2007 – Museum Brands. “Navicula Artis” Gallery, St. Petersburg

Group exhibitions

2023 – En Devenir, Nickel Gallery, Paris, France  
2021 – The Generation of Thirty-Year-Olds in Contemporary Russian 
Art. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
2021 – The Day After. The Herman Ottó Museum, Miskolc Gallery, 
Miskolc, Hungary
2021 – Osmosis. Fluid Aesthetics. Electromuseum, Moscow
2021 – The Looking-Glass and Through It. The Museum  
of St. – Petersburg Art (20th–21st centuries), St. Petersburg 
2020 – Gifts to the Russian Museum from Artists and Collectors. Selected Works. 1898–2019. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
2020 – 2070. Art Science Project. The Shchusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow
2019 – Russia. Timeless. DOX Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic
2019 – World Art Fest. Imitate Modern. London, Great Britain 
2019 – World Art Roadshow. Center for Contemporary Art “Winzavod”, Moscow
2019 – Wrong Reality. Hegyvidék Gallery, Budapest, Hungary 
2019 – Plastic Mass. Russian sculpture of the second half of the XX – early XXI centuries. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
2018 – Casts. Scientific-Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg
2018 – Tragedy in the Corner. Museum of Moscow, Moscow
2017 – The Right to the Future. The Museum of St. Petersburg Art (20th – 21st centuries), St. Petersburg
2017 – Prospect of the Unconquered. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
2017 – Luther and the Avantgarde. Wittenberg, Germany
2016 – Co-author. The New Wing of Gogol House, Moscow
2015-2016 – The Collective Conscious. Dialogues with Classical Art. Center for Contemporary Art "Winzavod", Moscow
2015 – The Art of Being Right Here. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
2015 – Glasstress Gotika. 56th Venice Biennale. Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, Italy
2015 – Cinematic Senses. Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki, Finland
2014 – The Other Capital: Contemporary Art of St. Petersburg Today. Museum of Moscow, Moscow
2014 – Season of Victories! Central Exhibition Hall "Manezh", Moscow
2014 – Triumph of Fun. The Main Project of the Moscow Biennale. Museum of Moscow, Moscow
2013 – Media Yard. Special Project of the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Higher School of Economics, Moscow
2013 – Museum of Contemporary Art. Department of Labour and Employment. Special Project of the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
2013 – Russia XXI. Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, the Netherlands
2013 – NEW SAINT PETERSBURG. Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2012 – Anonymous. Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM, Perm
2012 – From Production to the Product. 2nd Ural Biennale of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg
2012 – Mirror, mirror on the wall. Galerie Orel Art, Paris, France
2011 – Art is Art is Art. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
2011 – IX Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
2011 – In Depth. Biennale of Contemporary Art, Krasnoyarsk
2011 – Gates and Doors. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
2011 New Sculpture. Novy Museum of Aslan Chekhoev, St. Petersburg
2010-2011 – Extremely/Particularly. New Canon. Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM, Perm
2010 – Workers and Philosophers. Skolkovo, Moscow
2010 – La scène Russe contemporaine. Espace Art et Liberté à Charenton-le-Pont, Paris, France
2010 – Vis-à-vis. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, France
2010 – The Sky in Art. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
2010 – Rare Views. Biennale for Young Art, Moscow
2010 – Futurology. Russian Utopias. "Garage" Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2009 – Good News! Orel Art Gallery. London, Great Britain
2009 – BJCEM Association. XIV Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Skopia, Macedonia
2009 – Recycling. Youth Centre of the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg
2008 – Innovation 2008. National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow
2008 – The Next of Russian Today. Gallery LOOP, Seoul, South Korea
2024 Current Midtown. Matney Gallery. Williamsburg. USA

Collections

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow 
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow 
The State Hermitage, St. Petersburg
The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg 
Kunst im Rohnerhaus, Vorarlberg, Austria
The Lutherhaus Museum. Wittenberg. Germany 
Fondazione la Triennale di Milano. Milan. Italy